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SUSE: 2019:0891-1 Important: Xen Denial of Service Fixes

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Calendar Grey April 5, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has released a crucial security update that addresses two vulnerabilities in the xen hypervisor, providing 16 patches along with significant updates for a variety of software products.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 16 fixes is now available

Summary

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - Fixed an issue which could allow malicious PV guests may cause a host crash or gain access to data pertaining to other guests.Additionally, vulnerable configurations are likely to be unstable even in the absence of an attack (bsc#1126198). - Fixed multiple access violations introduced by XENMEM_exchange hypercall which could allow a single PV guest to leak arbitrary amounts of memory, leading to a denial of service (bsc#1126192). - Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious unprivileged guest userspace process to escalate its privilege to that of other userspace processes in the same guest and potentially thereby to that of the guest operating system (bsc#1126201). - Fixed an issue which could allow malicious or buggy x86 PV guest kernels

References

#1026236 #1027519 #1069468 #1119161 #1120067

#1123157 #1126140 #1126141 #1126192 #1126195

#1126196 #1126197 #1126198 #1126201 #1126325

#1127400 #1127620 #1129623

Cross- CVE-2019-6778 CVE-2019-9824

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6778.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9824.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1026236

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1069468

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1119161

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1120067

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1123157

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1126140

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1126141

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:0891-1
Rating: important

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